September 19, 2003
Calif. Student Will Spend Weekends in Jail for Tampering With Online Election
A graduate student at the University of California at Riverside has been sentenced to spend 28 days in jail on consecutive weekends for tampering with a campus election conducted over the Internet.
The student, Shawn Bijan Nematbakhsh, 21, was charged with unauthorized alteration of computer data, a felony under California's criminal code. He pleaded guilty to a similar misdemeanor charge and was sentenced in Riverside County Superior Court.
In April, while he was still an
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